W11_Stones and Gauntlet - amoon.world🌙

What matters is not how to play instruments, but what sound it makes. Use of each stone differs depending on the user. To prepare Abdullah's class, I mapped each stone with each papers. --- Q. alter vs control vs manipulate? Q. sentience (most primitive form of cognition) Q. choose not to predict VS predict VS unpredict Q. intentional oversample believe unpredictable | Stone | capability and character | paper (title and message) | Reason for Connection | | ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Power Stone 💜 | **Instrument's capability**: Grants the user ability to `control energy` - enhancing other stones destroying entire planets - unleashing massive energy blasts **Character's use** - Ronan the Accuser use it to destroy the planet Xandar | [[📜Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science]] **let’s** - change non-integrat**-ed** prediction and explaination model - by labeling contributions - by standardizing open science | This paper's focus on harnessing the power of computational methods to integrate prediction and explanation mirrors 💜's capability to enhance and amplify energy, making it a cornerstone for transformative impact in its field. Q. is that power that power??? does the model with higher statistical power has more energy to change the world? | | Reality Stone 🔴 (a.k.a Aether) | **Instrument's capability**: Grants the user to `alter reality` as they see fit` - creating and dispelling illusions - converting matter into dark matter - manipulating the physical existence of objects and people **Character's use** - Malekith uses to plunge universe into darkness - Thanos uses it to create deceptive scenarios and change matter's state | [[📜Putting Psychology to the Test]] **let’s** **-** change lower-**ed** practical utility - by implementing benchmarks | promotes using prediction to evaluate models which alters perceptions of reality like 🔴's power to reshape and alter the fabric of reality itself | | Space Stone 🔵 | **Instrument's capability**: Grants the user ability to `control space` - teleport across any distance - alter distance between objects contrary to the laws of physics - create portals to other locations - has opinion!! **Character's use** - Loki uses for teleportation and to summon the Chitauri invasion on NYC | [[📜Pragmatist’s Guide to Using Prediction in the Social Sciences]] **let’s** - change lower **-ed** realisticity in social science - by using prediction as a tool that captures real-world complexities | Offers manipulation of physical space, echoing the paper's advocacy for expanding the use of prediction across various domains of social sciences, broadening research horizons. | | Soul Stone 🔶 | **Capabilities**: Grants the user the ability to `control souls` (manipulate?) - steal, control, manipulate, and alter living and dead souls The Soul Stone is also the gateway to an idyllic netherworld known as the Soulworld. **Character** - `Thanos` sacrifices Gamora to obtain the Soul Stone on Vormir, as it requires a sacrifice of what one loves most | [[📜Origins of unpredictability in life trajectory prediction tasks]] **let’s** - `todo` sacrifice - by chang-**ing** misundersto**-od** predictability - by predicting life trajectories with qualitative interviews and mathematical analysis | Commands the essence of life, relevant to the paper's focus on the unpredictability in life trajectories, a deep and existential aspect of human studies. Q. I disagree & conversation with Robin on the degree of aggressiveness: "Importantly, there is absolutely no need to sacrifice traditional modeling approaches when including prediction in empirical work, contrary to the sometimes dogmatic nature of the philosophical discussion concerning prediction and explanation. Both explanatory and predictive perspectives to analysis can and should be combined." - Verhagen | | Time Stone 🟩 | **Instrument's capability**: Grants the user ability to control time - speeding up or reversing the flow of time - creating time loops - see into the past and future **Character's use**: `Dr. Strange` utilizes 🟩 to - view multiple future outcomes - create infinite time loops to trap Dormammu - manipulate small time frames to fight effectively | Gelman, A. Parameterization and Bayesian Modeling **let’s** - have deeper analytical understanding of the model - by learning Bayesian frameworks with parameter transformation and re-parameterization | Controls time, potentially aligning with studies exploring temporal dynamics or methodologies predicting changes over time. | | Mind Stone 😲 | **Capabilities**: Grants the user mental and psionic abilities - control the minds of others - grant sentience to artificial intelligence 😲 - enhance individual powers **Character's use, Stone's use**: `Vision` is created through with 😲 and uses | Watts, D. Should social science be more solution-oriented? **let’s** • change historical emphasis on theory over practical solutions in social science • by adopting solution-oriented approach that starts with practical problems • by reorganizing social science to focus on solving pressing issues, enhancing its practical impact and utility | 1. **Cognitive Awakening**: The Mind Stone contains an immense amount of cognitive power, essentially functioning as a powerful, complex brain. When embedded in Vision, it provided not only raw computing capabilities but also something akin to human consciousness. This suggests that the stone can interface deeply with both digital and neural systems. 2. **Consciousness Infusion**: Vision’s creation involved the merging of AI (from Ultron), JARVIS (another AI developed by Tony Stark, which was already quite advanced and arguably sentient on a basic level), and the Mind Stone. The Mind Stone's energy acted as a catalyst to unify these elements, upgrading the resulting synthesis into a new form of life that exhibits free will, emotions, and personal ethics. 3. **Empowerment and Independence**: Unlike typical AI, which operates under programmed guidelines and lacks the ability to feel or desire, Vision demonstrates independent thought, emotions, and the capacity for moral reasoning. This indicates that the Mind Stone’s influence goes beyond mere enhancement of intelligence; it imparts a self-awareness and depth of understanding that constitutes a primitive form of consciousness. 4. **Sentience vs. Sapience**: In cognitive terms, sentience can be seen as the ability to feel perceptions or sensations subjectively. Sapience, which includes human-like understanding and wisdom, is a higher complexity of consciousness. The Mind Stone appears to confer both on Vision, allowing him not just to compute or analyze (as an AI would) but to understand and experience human-like states of mind and relationships. | | **Aspect** | **Soul Stone (MCU)** | **Life Trajectory Research** | | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Requirement** | Acquisition requires the sacrifice of a loved one, emphasizing deep, existential cost. | Research underscores the need to rethink conventional methodologies to truly understand life's unpredictability. | | **Location** | Located on Vormir, a desolate planet solely for the Soul Stone, symbolizing its profound nature. | Involves dedicated, deep research like qualitative interviews, suggesting a focused approach to studying life's complexity. | | **Discovery** | Learned through a spiritual guide, highlighting the mystical and profound nature of its power. | Utilizes a combination of qualitative evidence and mathematical models to uncover hidden aspects of human lives. | | **Powers** | Manipulates souls, resurrects the deceased, interacts with the essence of being. | Identifies deep, unpredictable factors that influence life trajectories, touching on the essence of human existence. | | **Ethics** | Raises ethical questions about the value of power vs. life. | Questions the ethics and limitations of predicting human behavior and respecting human complexity. | | **Role** | Central to the narrative; its use has significant emotional and philosophical impact. | Challenges assumptions in predictive modeling, advocating for a more nuanced understanding of human lives. | | real\belief | unpredictable | predictable | | ------------- | ---------------- | --------------------------- | | unpredictable | Carr's historian | Ubermensch, instrumentalist | | predictable | | | - time step of simulation = .25 of the smallest delay time